Dorsum Bucher

Dorsum Bucher is a wrinkle ridge at 31°00′N 39°00′W / 31.0°N 39.0°W / 31.0; -39.0 in the border region between Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Imbrium on the Moon.

The name of the feature was approved by the IAU in 1976.

[1] It is approximately 85 km long, extending from the vicinity of Gruithuisen crater to the area west of Delisle crater.

The south end of the dorsum is a low hill of terra material that predates the mare lava.

The ridge was named after Walter Hermann Bucher, a German-American geologist and paleontologist.